SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5U.K.Film tax relief: further provisions

Part 2U.K.Certification of British films for purposes of film tax relief

17U.K.For paragraph 1 of that Schedule substitute—

PreliminaryU.K.

1(1)In this Schedule—

  • film” includes any record, however made, of a sequence of visual images that is capable of being used as a means of showing that sequence as a moving picture;

  • film production company” has the same meaning as in Chapter 3 of Part 3 of the Finance Act 2006 (see section 32 of that Act).

(2)For the purposes of this Schedule each part of a series of films is treated as a separate film, unless—

(a)the films form a series with not more than 26 parts,

(b)the combined playing time is not more than 26 hours, and

(c)the series constitutes a self-contained work or is a series of documentaries with a common theme,

in which case the films are treated as a single film.

(3)References in this Schedule to a film include the film soundtrack.

(4)For the purposes of this Schedule a film is completed when it is first in a form in which it can reasonably be regarded as ready for copies of it to be made and distributed for presentation to the general public..